Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-08-26

OJllcl Ike you.
just at this moment Whiteface, Morals ia
Vorite COW, came slowly up the meadow path,
and seeing Nora lying there she gave a gentle
low. 1t woke Nora and she could not for
moment remember where she was, and she
lay still and looked around for Dermot. and
slowly she began to realize that she had been
dreaming, ami She rose upon her elbow, and,
strange to say, she grasped in her right hand
tiny TUT of grass and III the midst of it in
plain sight was n clover stem with four dis
tnct leaves upon it. Wide awake now,
yet remembering her vivid dream, Nora OK
amincd her priceless treasure. There was no
mistake, but how had it got into her hand ?
Rcasoners might assert that in her sleep she
had clutched the tuft of grass in which this
clover grew, and that the whole idea was
nothing but superstition, but Nora did not
reason. She simply believed, and she was
sure, that III some way as yet unknown oil
would be made clear and straight. She knew
1t was the fairies who had placed that tails
man in her hands. The rest would come.
She went back home and mlked the COWS
and did her duties as deity as ever, but now
she felt herself u privileged mortal, holding
direct and tangible gift from the fairies,
and her whole thoughts were thanks to God
and the Virgin for the fairies gift.
Two or three days passed and nothing had
come; still Nora was patient and her faith
great until one evening MIR. 5atterlee came
home ANA said to his VIE:
Minnie, what is Noras other nance"
"Eleonora Greedy. Whyf
"Nou remember that cranky old woman
who had the Marsh cottage one summer
when we were in the White mountains, don't
your
The one who had the smallpox and whom
Nora went and nursed all aloneN
Yes, the very one Well, she's dead, and
in her will she has left Nora 81, 600 in token
OF tho 'unselflsh devotion with which Nora
took care of q supposed pauper, from whom
every one else fed so it was written in the
Will which was shown me today. After sup
per we will have her in and tell her of her
good fortune"
so when all was quiet and all the children
fast asleep, Nora was called in and told of her
good fortune She did not seem to be as
much astonished as Mr.. and Mrs Satterlee
thought the case warranted, still they thought
it was surprise that kept her so silent. Said
her mistress:
mora, hope when you receive your money
YOU will not grow TO be misery or avaricious,
rs that poor, lonely old woman did. 1t is a
You very unhappy if you allow it to overcome
you. have often noticed in you tendency
10 that fault, but then l thought you were
trying 70 lay up something toward home OF
your own some day, or at least something for
Your future but now that with care Your
future Is provided for, | feel it my duty to
Tell You that money was made for reasonable
Use, not for miSerly hoardmgs, and You must
be careful or the habit Will grow upon you
until you will be a despised and narrow
minded mser1
81, ma'am, l." cried Nora aghast then sud-
denly sho put her hand in her pocket and in
silence handed her mistress her fathers letter.
n few moments sutliced to show that Nora
had for all these faithful self sacrificing seven
long years been depriving herself of all the
things young girls love to have and had been
sending almost the whole of her hard earned
wages to Ireland to those who would have
starved but for it.
Mrs. Satterlee broke down and threw her
self first into her good husbands arms and
then into faithful Morals, and mistress and
servant cried together
Morals duty now called her to IRELAND. and
Mrs. Satterleu felt that she was losing what
she could never replace. Still she worked
with all her heart to help Nora to get ready
to go home as soon as possible; and when she
left there were moro than the baby who cried
for dear old Nora.
Thanks to her associations IN Mrs. Satter-
lees home, Nora was as ladylike and refined
in her manner as any physician could desire
his wife to be, and Dermot was proud and
happy man when his precious, faithful Nora
was i'll his arms
The poor Old parents ami the whole of her
acquaintance We're sharers in the little her
itage that had fallen to Nora, but it seems as
if the four leaf clover has not yet lost its
virtues, for tho whole tribe, even to ths
seventh cousins, have prospered since Nora
went back to Ireland. Dermot believes with
Nora that there was really something super
natural about tho manner in which she re-
ceived that wonderful talsman. and they
preserve it religiously, and Dermot repeats as
Nora dreamed he did mono but tho pure
in heart and the unselfsh in purpose can ever
find itn
Surely our Nora deserved it,
OLIVE HARPER.